Unit3 Section Ⅰ Listening and Speaking -2020-2021学年新教材高中英语选择性必修第三册新课标辅导【精讲精练】人教版（word)

[核心素养] ●语言能力：学习并掌握词汇、句型和直接引语以及间接引语的用法；学会写报告。 ●文化意识：了解目前我们所面临的严峻的环境问题，明确世界人民增强意识、联合起来保护环境的重要性。 ●思维品质：通过学习课文，练习阅读技能；通过写作学会调查报告的写作。 ●学习能力：通过语篇学习，提高推理、归纳等方法，掌握略读和精读的区别。 [主题语境]　Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed. 地球提供的足够满足每个人的需要，但不是每个人的贪婪。 ——Mahatma Gandhi(圣雄甘地) 当地震、火灾、沙尘暴、龙卷风等自然灾害发生时，人类才真正意识到，面对强大的自然威力，我们的生命是多么的脆弱。然而，自然灾害，真的只是“自然”灾害吗？ Although known as “natural disaster”， I more believe it is caused by long­term human impact. Events that harm plants and animals we collectively(共同地，全体地) called disasters. Throughout human history we can see that disasters are caused by two main reasons: natural variation and human impact. Scientists proved to us those natural disasters are rarely caused by pure natural factors, especially nowadays human activities are more frequent. Because humans have immense(极大的，巨大的) demands, the destruction they made increases the frequency and extent of natural disasters. Human beings actually play as boosters(支持者) in natural disasters. As a resident or Earth, we should take the responsibility to protect our mother nature. First, we need do a lot of publicity to raise people's awareness and understanding of environmental conservation. Second, we should stop wasting and littering to conserve natural resources.Third, we should conduct recycling, slow down deforestations(滥伐森林) and also improve treatment of white pollution, try not to use plastic products. Fourth, turn off your electricity when you are not using it. Recycling batteries after batteries are depleted.There are many ways we can do for our mother nature, sometimes we just need to change a little bit. The only thing we should always keep in mind is that the Earth is the only home we rely on; to protect the Earth and prevent natural disasters is for ourselves and for our future generations to benefit. Answer the following questions. 1．What is natural disaster according to the passage? Events_that_harm_plants_and_animals. 2．What is to blame for the nat